Born globals and international business: Evolution of a field of research

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zander, Ivo; McDougall-Covin, Patricia; Rose, Elizabeth L.
• 署名单位: Uppsala University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Otago; Aalto University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIMU); Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2014.60
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 27-35
• 关键词: born globals; entrepreneurship; international new venture; Decade Award

摘要

Knight and Cavusgil's award-winning article has played an important role in the development of the growing body of research on companies that internationalize early and rapidly. These born global firms represent important contributors to many economies, often as key players in ecosystems that support large multinational enterprises. Despite their growing importance, our understanding of how and why these firms develop and implement their internationalization strategies, and what makes them successful, remains incomplete. Addressing such questions has contributed substantially to the development of the research domain of international entrepreneurship (IE), which focuses on entrepreneurial aspects of doing business across borders, in the context of both small and large firms. While IE is much broader than born globals, these firms are central to the IE domain and the impact of the Knight and Cavusgil paper has helped to develop a stronger awareness of the important linkages and intersections between IF and the wider international business research. community. We reflect on the important contribution of this paper, and suggest some directions for the future development of research into firms that choose to operate internationally practically from the start of their operations.